Presidential Biographies | Eisenhower Administrations - Key Facts

Full name: Dwight David Eisenhower
Popular name: Ike

Personal Information:
Born: October 14, 1890
Birthplace: Denison, Texas
Died: March 28, 1969
Death place: Washington, D.C.
Burial place: Chapel beside his boyhood home and presidential library, Abilene, Kansas
Religion: Presbyterian
Spouse: Marie (Mamie) Geneva Doud (m. 1916)
Children: Doud Dwight; John Sheldon Doud
Education: U.S. Military Academy at West Point; Army Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Army War College, Washington, D.C.
Occupation: Soldier; general; university president
Political Party: Republican Party
Age at Inauguration: 62 years